Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The Australian animals are even more interesting than that plants. This is the land of the marsupial or pouch bearer. There are more than one hundred different kinds of animals which have pouches on their bodies, in which they carry their young. Some of these animals are taller than a man, and some no bigger than your thumb. Some climb trees, and some gallop over the plains, and some spend more than half their time in the water. The largest of the marsupials are the kangaroos, ranging in size from great gray fellows measuring more than seven feet from nose to tail down to the family dwarf, the kangaroo rat. The red and gray kangaroos are hunted in most parts of Australia and killed by the thousands. Horses and dogs are bred for sport. The dogs are a sort of hound, very fierce and fleet of foot. The big kangaroo has enormous hind legs which send it flying along as though moved by steel springs. It can leap twenty to thirty feet at a jump, and it fairly gallops over the country."
Image description from historic lecture booklet: "Very peculiar birds indeed are these we now consider, having a rosy or bright scarlet plumage, extraordinarily long legs and neck, and a large bill that is bent abruptly downward in the middle as though deformed. They frequent shallow, preferably salt-water, marshes and lagoons, and their food consists of small mollusks, crustaceans, and vegetable matter, which they secure by exploring around in the soft mud much after the manner of ducks, the water running out between the ridges of the bill." Photograph was hand colored.
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Adelaide is a prosperous city of more than 200,000 people and is the capital city of South Australia. Immediately north from Adelaide the wheat country reveals itself in gentle undulations and extends inland about 150 miles."
